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Coronavirus pandemic

One of first doctors to report coronavirus in China dies in Wuhan, reports say

This is according to The Global Times daily

MOSCOW, February 6. /TASS/. One of eight doctors who first reported an outbreak of novel coronavirus in China, Li Wenliang, has died in Wuhan on Thursday. The Global Times daily informed that he had succumbed to pneumonia caused by the virus.

On December 31, Chinese authorities informed the World Health Organization (WHO) about an outbreak of an unknown pneumonia in the city of Wuhan - a large trade and industrial center in central China populated by 11 million people. On January 7, Chinese experts identified the infecting agent - coronavirus 2019-nCoV. The virus spread to 24 more countries apart from China - Australia, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, Malaysia, Nepal, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vietnam. WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak in China a global health emergency.

Currently, the total number of people infected with coronavirus exceeded 28,000 in China with over 560 people reported to have died from the disease. Meanwhile, over 1,400 people are said to have recovered from it.

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